Canadian director Mina Shum on her unusually uplifting film, Meditation Park, about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant whose life drastically changes after her …
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TIFF15 review: NFB history doc Ninth Floor sheds light on our racial biases
Mina Shum’s taut and accomplished documentary The Ninth Floor is an extremely important film about racial discrimination in Canada. Not only does it retell a …
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TIFF15 interview: Ninth Floor director Mina Shum discusses Canadian racism
"I very deliberately have each character look into the lens at one point — look at us — so that suddenly we’re watched, and the tables are turned...In Canada, …
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